In the show, artist Corin Hewitt “will create art while concealing himself in a compressed studio space built for the exhibition,” The Journal says. He'll be holding museum talks, too.

The Journal notes that Mr. Hewitt has had solo shows at venues including New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, so this is a major get for MOCA Cleveland. (He has a bachelor's degree from Oberlin.)

In addition, Pillow magazine, a trendy cultural publication from London, has named the MOCA Cleveland building, designed by Farshid Moussavi Architects, as a finalist for its 2013 Designs of the Year awards in the architecture category.

It lauds the innovative design of the building and singles it out for being “both environmentally and fiscally sustainable.”

MOCA Cleveland is the only finalist in the architecture category that is in the United States. The six other finalists are in places including Beijing, Copenhagen, London and Seoul.

The magazine has a slideshow highlighting all the projects. Tough competition, but MOCA Cleveland certainly holds its own with the other finalists.

This and that

The post identifies two strains of public hostility to Corporate America. One is the sense that Washington picks winners and losers and rewards companies that are big donors to influential politicians.

“A second development that raises the level of hostility to corporate chieftains is the fact that there has been, over the past decade, a sharp decline in the reward for work,” The Times blog post notes.

Margaret Jacobson and Filippo Occhino of the Cleveland Fed “documented this decline in a paper published in September, 'Labor's Declining Share of Income and Rising Inequality,'” according to the post.

Here's what they found:

From 1948 to 1973, compensation rose at almost exactly the same rate as productivity; in other words, workers gained proportionately as their productivity improved. Over the following two decades, from 1974 to 1995, however, the rate of compensation growth fell behind productivity by roughly 0.25 percent a year, and then fell even further, by 0.5 percent, over the years from 1996 to 2011. For a worker making $25,000 a year in 1974, the failure of his pay to keep up with his productivity growth means that he made $5,763 less in 2011, $43,225, than he would have had his pay kept up with productivity gains, $48,988.

The post says the economists have identified three long-term factors that explain why “the wage-productivity gap has widened and the share of income accruing to labor has declined.”

They are the decline of unions and the resulting weakening of the bargaining power of labor; the movement of good-paying jobs overseas; and automation and technology advances that have encouraged a shift from workers to machines.

Fun and games: The Fix blog at The Washington Posttakes a crack at identifying the nation's 10 most interesting states in politics, and, unsurprisingly, Ohio makes this list, at No. 7.

It's an unscientific exercise, based primarily on submissions from readers. But those submissions about Ohio ring pretty true. Take this one, for example:

“Everyone knows Ohio's reputation as the ultimate swing state, but few outsiders can truly comprehend the overwhelming volume of campaign ads to which we're subjected every four years. The week before the general election, you're lucky if you see more than one non-campaign ad during any commercial break. The quantity of ads, I guess, makes up for their quality, which is usually appalling at best.

There's also this:

“Did I mention our politicians? Well, in 2012, the one you probably heard the most about was Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel, our baby-faced state treasurer … But that's not all: We're also the home state of U.S. Rep. John Boehner, Washington's answer to Charlie Brown; Gov. John Kasich, who started out brash and mouthy but then turned reasoned and introspective when voters repealed his collective bargaining legislation; and Sen. Sherrod Brown, who's way the heck more liberal than you'd think a swing state senator would be.

This is an amusing read. No. 1, by the way, is the always-controversial South Carolina.

Key to growth: Shares of KeyCorp figure to be a good bet “as the company is trading at a discount to its book value and has strengthened its balance sheet since the financial crisis,” according to this Reuters summary of a piece (behind a paywall, alas) in financial weekly Barron's.

“The bank's shares trade at a 5 percent discount to its book value, which is below its peers,” Reuters says, based on the Barron's story. “If the shares traded at 1.1 times their book value, they would be worth $11, which is 23 percent above its current price of $8.94.”

KeyCorp's capital levels and loan portfolio quality have improved and the bank had solid loan growth of 5 percent in the third quarter, according to Barron's. It also notes that KeyCorp could receive approval from the Federal Reserve to increase dividend payments to shareholders and buy back more shares.

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